Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-10-02

letters-lf il wOnli be safe 10 90 SO.
"From Port Sad L go BACK to Ed
gland" ssid Miss Tremayne, looking
dreamily over the rolling waters of the
Channel
"Would that were going back with
you," said Lonsdsle, thinking of Me
LAME.
"The wish comes 100 1ste," replied
Miss Tremayne, with fash through her
half-closet eyelids, affecting perhaps to
misunderstood him.
"Why?"
~ am going back to be married.
Sat last" sid Lo2sdale, ignoring the
inference; "but pardon me-what the
deuce have said?"
zone of those things people had better
leave unsaid," replied the other, with a
merry laugh; "bu5 forgive you"
Sand / congratulate you. Who is the
too happy man, Hilda?"
"Ole who would resent your address
ing ne by my Christian name"
Given as al old friend?"
eyes; so al you shall learn is that he
is now in Dublin"
In her extreme vanity, Hilds
Tremayne was scarcely aware that men
too often addressed her in : flippant KIND
OF way, which she deemed rather compH-
menrary than otherwise.
"When back in London" said she, after
a smiling pause, "I shall, of course, nave
no end of shopping TO do"
Chow | should like TO be there and
accompany you!"
"Why?" she asked, with dropping
eYelsshes.
because sm anxious TO know now
expensive 8 luxury vile is"
"You must look on the land of tie
white elephant ere you can think OF that
now" she replied, with something OF
pique.
True" said LonsdaIe, as his transient
smile died away. "Ooject TO my cigar"
be asked after pause.
"Oh, not ST all; rather like it. Oh,
Captain LoDsdaIe, shall never forget
our too delightful row on the river that
lay above StOckencrcss.
LonsGale did not respond; ne could not
ssree with her, Is it led to The only cloud
that ever came between himself and
Melanle; and he ssiG:
"Permit me &c introduce to you young
DanVers Of the 9th"
"rhat big boy without & 1noustache?"
"He'l talk to you about India"
"InGia-Why, he can't know the differ
ence between 3 h0wdsh and HVderabad, -
said HilGa, with g m0ue. ono, please; |
would rather talk TO you, old friend; and
now take me to the saloon, the breakfast
bell has Turg"
So Lonsdale began to find that despite
ell the attractive young fellows who were
On board, Miss Tremsyne was deter
mined to adopt him as her special cava.
lier; and The circumstance that she sus-
pectsd MN OF being engaged to smother
lent piqusncy TO this proceeding on heI
per. especially as he Was q h3ndsor I
fellow, 8 V. e., man, and there we're Z 4ny
ladies OF various ages on bosrd.
He w45 ungallalt enough to hope ira
WI en- the PNg0da WAS (@iT!y out into mid
channel the mai de mer might relieve hin
OF this duty; but Hilda mad been 700 Otter
/ 81 sea, had yaChted too much at C0Wet
and elsewhere TO suffer from that; anC
tor time-so fsT as her own Eek VIZ
/ ConCerned-she Ead zee poop end sslool
nearly 10 herself, and thus the attendarc
Which he could not avoid became me Il
/ requisite snau eve". aTGidst the enforce
! idleness OF boardsnip-tne idle
ness that, at times, promotes u
kept them before, and IN which they hs
nothing nOW to insert; the idleness, th
vaDidity Of which may be guessed 8
through the reflection OF the dsily an
hourly talk.
And when Lonsdale, after Malta vas ia
astern, ended g long, long letter to Me
larie, inspired with elOquence by his Low
Of her, anG al the tender phrase
OlogY that passion could promp
10 be finally dated and pOste
81 the entrance to the canal, he fe
there was 4 kind of treason in his nery on
reticence in not trusting her with III
fact that the the c0quettish Hilda Ire
nsyns wss, at that moment, seated oppC
site 10 him, writing, he supposed, to he
intended, poor devil!
While the coquettish and flirting Hid
could Vegy little have conceived th.
,L0n5dale was then inspired only by 8
intense longing to resch the shores {
Egypt, when he hoped to see the last
her, she availed herself Of his services s
cavalier On every available occasion; BIZ
with all her undoUbted attractions or
brilliance, ne fit himself t.
from gTstihed thereby, ard remarke
that though she was sort
queen sm0ng the young subs ard grlE
who were going out, Dig6y Mon.ressc
treated her with extreme c0ldness; an
, to LCDsdaie'6 eve, ne appeared change
and sOuEed man from the once bright 81
hsUpy fellow he hGd been. seer
seemed to be weighing upon his mind, al
to that mis- friend hoped 20 find the key
time.
With alI her coquettish appropriate
Ot LcnGdale, Hilde Tremayne WsS rot
untrue TO her usual instincts as 20 ON
attracting every other man il the 5sloo
2 if possible, whether old or y0uas
! married or otherwise. Thus
group was generally about her
. group OF whom she seemed the sun a.
q center. And her letter ID her faace vi
2 no sooner closed, than sic bes0ok he
: sell to game IL which she was fond
y lndulgiEg! Just pslmistry-Jhe Ia
2 fad society had taken up; and with t
!, young subs, and their seniors too, z
: was ever and anon examining the
r digits and protesting to be great in /
: Lines OF Life, the Hepetica or PlEin
: Msrs, the Mounts of Venus, the hnge
under special planetary influence, and
r all the iargon OF this new study-!f
i, study it is-amid much banter and mo
!. incredulity.
Il The gentlemen, however, had not I
: slightest objection to submit Their han
10 The manipulstions OF SO fsir-fnger
c an amateur sibyl; it was rather ple'
ant sensation to most of them, if not
i all, though some there were who reseI
s ed the harmless nonsense she uttered
d glibly and SO archiy.